HC Deb 10 December 1942 vol 385 c1726W
Mr. Rostron Duckworth

asked the Minister of Labour the aggregate increase in basic wages of the trades, for which he has records, since 3rd September, 1939, to the latest date for which statistics are available?

Mr. Bevin

On the basis of such information as is available to my Department, relating mainly to rates of wages fixed by statutory orders or by collective agreements between organisations of employers and workpeople, it is estimated that the average increase in weekly full-time rates of wages since the beginning of the war up to the end of October, 1942, was between 31 and 32 per cent.